Dungeon Keeper™ 2

I owned both DK1 (Deeper Dungeons addon) and DK2. When they got 3DFX patched the world could have ended and I wouldn’t have noticed! What makes DK# better than any other clone, is that *you* are the Keeper. No having to babysit a hero you must keep alive. Nope. You build all the rooms as you see fit. Train the creatures and keep them happy with chicken legs ;) Everything is at the end of your virtual hand. Slap a slow lazy creature, pickup a minion to harden a wall or dig for good/jewels. Or pickup up a plethora of trained levelled creatures and drop them at the foot of the enemy that just broken through your dungeon and watch the ensuing carnage -with a possession spell- through the eyes of *any* of the creatures you want. All in the comfort of your damp dungeon! The speech of the creatures from mumbles to moan to excitement is hilarious as is the narrator, who come out with one-liners ‘your dungeon is damp, install central heating’ Paydays must be met, otherwise creatures will leave unhappy through the portal they came through. Find treasure boxes with spells, research new ones, lay traps, alarms anywhere. Ranks of Cannons to blast the enemy. Your choice. Once the lord of the realm is defeated in strides Horny to claim a part of the Jewel representing Horney’s face at the foot of the dead lord. Complete them all to have Horny on tap to help defeat hordes and ever more powerful lords. An absolute PC legend, no wonder it’s in GoGs preservation program. No PC should be without it installed and DK1 “ mwahahaha!”

25 years old and still as enjoyable as ever. The graphics are surprisingly decent especially played at 1600x1200. Sound is great. Keyboard mapping is a bit odd but you can change all the keys. Menu text disapears above 1024x768 but once you've memorised the memus it's okay. Doesn't crash too often but it's worth dropping a quick save every couple of minuites. It's a real blast to play it again but I'm not sure if I don't actually prefer Dungrons 3.

It's great to see this game on the GOG library but unfortunately this build has a lot of issues remaining. It suffers from stuttering/hitching, at seemingly random spots, as if the frame rate is dropping right down It doesn't exit cleanly, requiring an end task to shut the game down The cursor moves way too fast, even on the lowest sensitivity setting The game feels like it's running too fast too, even on the lowest speed. It's still playable but I hope GoG can give it a little more TLC for more modern PCs. I'm on Windows 11 on a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and GTX 4090. I tried various fixes as offered around the web but so far nothing has really solved the issues.

Works like a charm on Win7 x64, so that you know. :) What can I say, really... just try it for yourself. The latest patch fixes hardware acceleration (for both nVidia and ATI, even on notebooks), so now you really have absolutely NO excuse to not to buy this piece of gamemaking art.

10/10